American twist

Freyda Thomas adapts Moliere’s ‘Tartuffe’ with an American twist in a winning production at Topanga’s beloved Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

The hardscrabble lives of Irish laborers gave rise to a St. Patrick’s Day tradition unique to New Orleans: Float riders in the annual Irish Channel parade toss cabbages and potatoes to the people on the street, an Irish American twist on the Mardi Gras practice of throwing strings of beads and other favors to revelers.

So, in an oddly American twist, in comes a billion-dollar U.S. corporation to gobble up a depreciating asset.

Rather, what is unique, with an American twist, is a problem like this: Homebuilders are struggling to complete homes amid a housing shortage because they must first complete the thing designed to house our cars.

It’s an American twist on the applause and singing for besieged health care workers in Europe.